Artaud the Mômo

and Other Major Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0235-1
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 155 g

Reihe: Last Writings of Antonin Artaud

is Antonin Artaud’s most extraordinary poetic work of the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris from a nine-year incarceration in France’s psychiatric institutions in 1946 until his death in 1948. The work is an unprecedented anatomical excavation carried through in vocal language, envisioning new gestural futures for the human body in its splintered fragments, while also generating black-humor illuminations into Artaud’s own status as the scorned Marseille-born child-fool, the ‘mômo’ (a self-naming that fascinated Jacques Derrida in his writings on this work). Artaud moves between extreme irreligious obscenity and delicate evocations of his immediate corporeal perception and his sense of solitude. The book’s five-part sequence ends with Artaud’s caustic denunciation of psychiatric institutions and of the very conception of madness itself.

This edition, translated by Clayton Eshleman—the acclaimed foremost translator of Artaud’s work—presents the work in the spatial format Artaud intended, for the first time since its original edition in 1947. It also incorporates the eight original drawings by Artaud—showing reconfigured bodies, weapons of resistance and assault—which he selected for that edition, having initially attempted to persuade Picasso to collaborate with him.

The editorial material draws on Artaud’s previously unknown manuscript letters of 1946-48 to the book’s publisher, Pierre Bordas, which give unique insights into the work from its origins to its publication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Artaud, Antonin

Barber, Stephen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Eshleman, Clayton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

6	-	25	The Return of Artaud, the Mômo	(Antonin Artaud)
26	-	35	Center-Mother and Boss-Pussy	(Antonin Artaud)
36	-	43	Insult to the Unconditioned	(Antonin Artaud)
44	-	87	Execration of the Father-Mother	(Antonin Artaud)
88	-	111	Alienation and Black Magic	(Antonin Artaud)
113	-	115	Notes by Clayton Eshleman	(Clayton Eshleman)
117	-	132	Stephen Barber: Artaud’s Last Work & Artaud the Mômo	(Stephen Barber)

Über Autor(innen)

Artaud, Antonin
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth century writing, art and sound experimentation, known especially for his work with the Surrealist movement, his performance theories, his asylum incarcerations, and his artworks which have been exhibited in major exhibitions, at New York’s MOMA and many other art-museums.

Barber, Stephen
Stephen Barber ist derzeit Fellow am Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien an der Universität Heidelberg. Ansonsten ist er Professor für Kunst und Film und Co-Direktor des Visual Culture Research Centre an der Kingston University in London. Er ist Autor von drei bereits bei Diaphanes erschienenen Büchern - White Noise Ballrooms (2018) Film's Ghosts (2019) und The Projectionists (2020) - und mehreren in Vorbereitung befindlichen Büchern, darunter Wasteland/Apocalypse. Außerdem hat er für Diaphanes zwei Bücher mit Schriften von Antonin Artaud – Artaud 1937 Apocalypse (2018) und A Sinister Assassin (2023) – übersetzt. Seine Bücher wurden von der britischen Zeitung The Times als „brillant, tiefgründig und provokativ“ beschrieben.